WILL: George HAWN, 1874, Juniata Township, Huntingdon County, PA

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Last Will            I, George Hawn of Juniata Township in the county of 
of                   Huntingdon and State of Pennsylvania being impressed 
GEORGE HAWN          with the uncertainty of life and feeling it to be a 
                     duty while in health and in the possession of rational 
faculties to make a disposition of such property as I may be possessed of do 
make and publish this my last will and testament as follows to wit: I direct 
all my debts and funeral expenses to be paid as soon as conveniently after 
my decease out of my estate hereby giving my Executors hereinafter named 
full power and authority to sell and convey my part of my estate for that 
purpose that they may think proper.  I will and bequeath to George H. Acker 
(the boy I raised and is now living with me) the sum of one thousand dollars 
to be paid to him at the age of twenty one years in case the said George H. 
Acker will be and remain with my three brothers until he arrives at the age 
of twenty years. I will and bequeath to Catharine Bush (who has been my kind 
and faithful housekeeper) the sum of one thousand dollars to payed to her on 
the following terms, to wit:  three hundred dollars on the first day of 
April A. D. 1875 three hundred dollars on the first day of April 1876; four 
hundred dollars on the first day of April 1877.  I will and bequeath Six 
hundred and twenty five dollars tword the building of a Lutherian Church and 
the rest and residue of my estate, real and personal and mixed I hereby 
desire and bequeath to my three brothers John, Peter and Issac the personal 
property to be used and disposed of as they may see proper and the real 
estate to be help and enjoyed by them the said John, Peter and Isaac as 
tenants in common during life and the sale and last survivor to hold the 
same or so much as may not be sold to him and his heirs and assigns forever 
in case my three brothers John, Peter, and Isaac should desire to sell and 
dispose of the whole or any part of the real estate hereby devised they are 
at liberty to sell the same and by deed or deeds of conveyance dully 
executed and delivered by them to convey the same to them to the purchaser 
and purchasers in fee simple. If any or all of my said brothers should 
hereafter be married in that event the undivided third part of my real 
estate shall be vested in each of such as may be married in fee simple and 
not for life as before provided and as our brother Daniel has been deprived 
of his reason for many years and there is now no prospect of his mind being 
restored, I request my said brothers John, Peter and Isaac to contribute out 
of the estate hereby devised to them towards the support and maintainance of 
our said unfortunate brother in the event of the estate devised and 
bequeathed to him by our dear mother becoming exhausted. Lastly hereby 
constitute and appoint my said brothers John, Peter and Isaac the Executors 
of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set 
my hand the fourth day of March A.D. 1874.
Signed, Executed and published            his
by George Hawn in the presence       George X Hawn
of us.       Miles Shenefelt              mark
             S. B. Shenefelt

County of Huntingdon
  This 27th day of March A.D. 1874 before me W. E. Lightner Register for the 
Probate of Wills and granting of Letters of Administration in and for the 
county o Huntingdon personally came Miles and A. B. Shenefelt the 
subscribing witnesses to the above will and being duly sworn according to 
law did depose and say that they were present and saw and heard George Hawn 
the testator sign, seals publish, pronounce and declare the foregoing 
instrument of writing as and for his testament and last will and that at the 
time of so doing he the said testator was of perfect and sound mind, memory 
and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief.
Sworn and Subscribed before me
          W. E. Lightner      A. B. Shenefelt
          Register            Miles Shenefelt

Renunciation      Know all men by these presents that I, John Hawn of 
Juniata 
of                Huntingdon County Pennsylvania, one of the Executors names 
John Hawn         in the last will and testament of George Hawn late of the 
one of the Exr's  same place have renounced, released and quit names claimed 
in the last       and by these presents do renounce, release and quit claim
will of Geo Hawn  all my right and title to the said Executorship and desire
deceased          that the same may be committed to my brothers Isaac and 
Peter who are named as Executors in the said will.  In witness whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of March 1874
Witness A. B. Shenefelt, John Hawn Jr.            John Hawn (seal)

Letters Testamentary     On this 27th day of March A.D. 1874, Letters 
granted on the estate    Testamentary in common form were this day granted
of                       to Peter and Isaac Hawn on the estate of George
George Hawn dec'd.       Hawn late of Juniata Township deceased.

                                          W. E. Lightner
                                          Register